Short Description
These are 51 slide cabinets with capacities ranging from 4,000 to 12,000 units, slide projectors and viewing devices, and a PC workstation for administrative tasks and labeling. The slides are arranged according to epochs, genres and artists. Monuments and architecture are arranged as far as possible according to artists´ names, otherwise topographically. In addition, there is a collection that is organized according to iconographic motives. Each slide is labeled accordingly.
Contact Person
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiß
Research Services
Research on the historical perception of artworks and architecture; research on a part of the history of education; research on the teaching of art history at universities; research on a canon of works in art history.
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
The slide library was formerly used for teaching and research. In the meantime, it has itself become the subject of research. The slide library provides visual material that in some other form is no longer available. The slides are valuable testimonies of art history, as they document the history of the perception of art, research interests, and thematic trends. In addition, some of the works preserved through the slides, or their condition, are available in better visual quality than in digital reproductions. The slide collection is also a testimony to the collecting of art images. The selection of works reflects the history of teaching at the University of Salzburg, and is therefore part of the history of taste and thus an important source for the study of the history of education. Even the captions on the slides are part of this documentation, this piece of the history of science.